Double Crunch Challenge: Post-Post-Week Wrap-up

January 28, 2010 by Matty G · Leave a Comment
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So the week after the… uhh, week after the double crunch challenge, I’m still doing crunches (though I’ve dropped it to 100 per day), I’m still eating relatively healthy (save for the Wendy’s my wife and I got for dinner because we were in a bit of a rush).

I’ve included having a handful of nuts between meals to keep the metabolism going. Water doesn’t seem to do it, even though I drink about 2 litres over the course of the day.

Today I started including lunges in my morning exercise. I’m not all that good at them because of balance issues, but I still got a burn from doing them, which is a good thing.

Interesting note: the guy I share my office with (I got to find a shorter way to say that – what about gismow?) just started on P90X. I looked at that at one point, but the pre-requisites definitely don’t allow for fat guys to start with that routine. Maybe once I get to that first plateau. Maybe.

Until Seth gets back (which I believe he said would be next week) I’ll add a new exercise each week. Maybe I should get my Wii Fit involved again. But I can’t watch BT and exercise at the same time if the Wii Fit is involved. Hmmmm.

Double Crunch Challenge: Update

January 11, 2010 by Matty G · 2 Comments
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On day 4 of the double crunch challenge: I’m hurting.

I’ve been faithfully doing my 250 crunches a day and have had very little difficulty in eating a different green vegetable each day. Friday was Green Peppers, Saturday was Broccoli and Celery (Looky! Double Dose!), Sunday was Asparagus. Today? Any suggestions?

Did I say I’m hurting? Wait… my fellow office dweller is gone for lunch. Time for 50 crunches! That’ll bring me up to 150 for the day.

I’m back. Yes, I might be going insane when I hurt and I’m doing the very thing that makes me hurt, but hey – (cliche alert) no pain, no gain!

Today’s question posed by our PrimalStride fearless leader, Seth:

What do you look forward to most when you imagine yourself living a truly healthy lifestyle?

I see running around with my son without running out of breath after 10 minutes. I see looking forward to walking with my wife. I don’t see me better at sports, but definitely enjoying them more despite my lack of coordination.

It occurs to me that I should look at last week’s challenge (even though I had not committed to PrimalStride yet) and incorporate it into my daily routine.